cPanel Website Hosting Defined

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace supply exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/CP option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are just a normal person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brand names all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps covered all web hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number 1: A dumb domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We undeniably are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same email folder configuration

The email folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too seriously.

Negative Point No.3: A total deficiency of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we need to mention the utter shortage of a modern domain name administration user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a major weakness. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Side Number 4: Many user login places (minimum two, max three)

What about the need for another login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting company. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (especially created for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting supplier is making use of, the eager users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name management system; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty CP menus to grasp... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting providers:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...